Join your fellow cellists to read and rehearse music for cello ensemble in a relaxed, collegial environment. We’ll play chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach, original compositions by Julius Klengel, arrangements of works by Robert Schumann, and other enjoyable music in six 90-minute sessions.
No performing, just geeking out on the pleasure of hearing cellos, cellos, and nothing but cellos.
Do you already know some chords and songs on the guitar, but feel like you’re speaking bits and pieces of a foreign language?
Do you marvel at guitarists who can easily change the key of a song to fit their vocal range or improvise a solo on the spot?
They’re not doing magic tricks. They’re just speaking a musical language they’ve taken time to learn from the ground up.
In this series of hour-long weekly classes, I’ll teach you the basics of that language — notes, intervals, scales, chords, and keys — as they apply to the guitar.
With our instruments in hand, we’ll use fretboard diagrams and simple exercises to learn the fundamentals of music. We won’t be reading music notation or tab. Instead, we’ll train our ears to show our hands what to do.
No matter how long you’ve been playing the guitar or how old you are, I can help you understand the vocabulary and grammar of music-making and hear the patterns common to pop, rock, folk, and classical music.
I can’t work wonders, so you’ll need to pay attention and apply what I show you to your guitar playing. But don’t worry, I’ll give you the tools you need with simple exercises and drills you can do at home.
You’ll start to understand how music actually works — the alphabet, the vocabulary, the phrases, sentences, and paragraphs — so you can play more confidently and tell your own musical stories.
Topics The Major Scale and Two-Note Chords Notes and Intervals Scales and Modes Three-Note Chords Keys and Four-Note Chords Key Changes and Improvisation
Logistics Wednesdays, 7:00 to 8:00 pm
Location: Marin Community Music School, 55 San Anselmo Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960
Fee: $25 per class for new students, $15 for students already enrolled in lessons.
Lois Lane is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a longstanding psychotherapy practice in San Anselmo where she sees individuals and couples. She was also supervisor of Children’s Services for Marin County Community Mental Health. Her other longstanding avocation has been playing music. She was fortunate enough to study violin from a young age at Third Street Music Settlement School in Manhattan. In a public high school in New Jersey she participated in a regular orchestra, a string orchestra and played in a string quartet. This early enrichment led to a life long love of playing the violin, taking lessons and making music with others. She is very grateful to participate in the Chamber Music Program at MCMS. Her goal as a Board Member is to strengthen the music programs at MCMS so other children can have the opportunity to discover the joys of making music.
In her spare time she is an avid gardener, with a large organic vegetable garden.
Long-time San Anselmo resident Adrienne Roth has had two careers, one in education and another in real estate, as well as a life-long passion for music. As an educator, she aided in the development of the California legislation that enabled the California Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program and subsequently administered the GATE program for the San Anselmo schools. She moved into real estate sales with Merrill Lynch, and has been a broker with Frank Howard Allen, now Coldwell Banker, since 1985.
Adrienne earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at Brandeis University, majoring in psychology and minoring in music, and her Master of Education degree at Harvard University. She plays the piano.
music lessons, chamber music coaching, and performance for students of all ages.
